Apply for PhD Scholarship to study Sail to Steam
Posted: Friday 27th September 2024
Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD, with opportunities for a visiting scholarship in Callao (Peru), to commence in February 2025.
The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures (PCMC) is delighted to announce opportunities for doctoral research in the field of humanities and social science for a PhD on the first phase of the ‘Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green: Empowering Port Communities in the Global South’ project.
The overarching theme of ‘Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green’ is to seek to understand the role of local knowledge and the impact of sail to steam shipping on communities and the infrastructure of international sea ports in the Global South. This will be underpinned by studies which will provide rigorous scholarly research for comparative analysis of the heritage and attitudes of people in the Global South in regard to maritime technological change and its consequences. The advertised PhD programme will focus on the port city of Callao (Peru).
The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and will be supervised by the project leaders Dr Rudolph Ng, Dr Melanie Bassett and Dr Karl Bell. Additional mentorship will be offered by Professor Jose de la Puente Brunke at PUCP.
This doctoral-level research programme will consist of a cross-disciplinary study combining historical research and social scientific data collection. The study will set the context for an identified port city throughout the period of sail to steam energy transition, and also measure its effects and impacts on the communities and cultures which have remained or have grown from the creation of global port cities. The project focuses on the past, present and future importance of urban-maritime cultures and communities within a global context, which align with the key research themes of PCMC. Working with academics, creative practitioners, funders and local community groups, the project will explore the relationships between urban and maritime spaces and seek to bring in local voices.
The Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green project is funded by Lloyd's Register Foundation.
The successful candidate will visit Peru for their research.
The scholarship will cover fees for a student from the UK/EU.
Deadline to apply: 7 October 2024
